Farmer Participatory Seed Production in Paddy - A Success Story
E. Umarani*
Agricultural Research Station, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Tornala, Telangana (502 114), India
A. V. Ramanjaneyulu
Agricultural Research Station, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Tornala, Telangana (502 114), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: JGL-18047, Participatory seed production, Rice, Seed
Abstract
Seed is the basic input in Agriculture and good quality seed is the primary requisite for obtaining optimum crop stand, healthy crop and productivity. Many farmers are running behind the various government and non-government organizations every season in search of good quality seed. However, in view of large gap between production and supply, some of the farmers are resorting to locally available poor quality seed thus less productivity and income. Hence, adoption of on-farm seed production under the supervision of scientists through farmer participatory approach can improve farmers’ income besides ensuring the availability of good quality seed. This article narrates how ARS, Tornala helped the farmer to produce 74.6 q/ha of quality seed of JGL-18047 variety of paddy and doubled the farmer’s income as compared to that of normal paddy cultivation.
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DOA-T, 2020. Department of Agriculture, Telangana Government, 2020.
Indiastat. Agriculture production. 19th July 2020. http://www.indiast